"Ehh, what did you say?"
Beginning Reader
Rationale: In order to become better
readers and decoders, children need to understand that letters
represent vocal gestures or phonemes. We also want to teach our
students the shape of each letter. Short vowels are probably the
toughest phonemes to identify. This lesson plan will help
students to identify the correspondence e=/e/ by recognizing the
sound of our elderly lady saying, "ehh" and seeing the shape of
the letter.
Materials:
Writing paper
Pencil
Letter Boxes
Tiles: t,e,n,c,k,w,t,s,p,
Words (ten, neck, pen and spent)
Tongue Twister: Eddie my elderly red dog slept in his pen.
A copy of book Pen Pals, Cushman, S (1990) for each
student
Picture of Grandma holding her ear with the letter e
(reading genie website)
Picture cards for assessment
Dry erase markers
1. Today we are going to learn about what sound the letter
e makes. When reading we want to recognize our letters and
sounds. The letter e makes the /e/ sound. Say it with me,
"ehh." Good job! Do you know a word
that has the /e/ sound in it?
Bed has the /e/ sound in it. B-/e/-D. Great job!
2. Now let's practice how to write an e. When I write my
e, I place my pencil on the center of the space below the fence,
go toward the door (right), up to touch the fence, then around
and up like you are making a little c. Let's try it together,
line and c. Great job! I want to see everyone's e's on their
paper!
3. When reading we want to recognize our letters and
sounds. Can you think about when you are confused and you say
out loud, Ehhh? What did you say? This is the sound the letter
/e/ makes. Let's say it together but when you say it cuff your
hand around your ear. Let's try it, Ehh? Let's look at our
picture of grandma, see how she says ehh? So now every time you
hear or see /e/ you can do this too.
4. Now I am going to say a sentence, and when you hear the
/e/ sound I want you to cuff your hand over your ear and say the
ehh, like your confused? Okay, let's try it Tounge Twister:
Eddie my elderly red dog slept in his pen. Good Job! Now I want
you to say it with me one more time and stretch out the /e/
sound in each word. /E/ddie my /e/lderly r/e/d dog w/e/nt
sl/e/pt in his p/e/n. Great, good job!
5. Now I am going to say some words and I want you to tell
me which word you hear /e/ in.
Pen or box? Paper
or pencil? Bed or
house? Web or box? Hen or
chick? Great job!
Now let's look at some words and I want you to tell me if
they have /e/ in them. Red
or brown? Hen or animal?
Thank you for working so hard!
6. Now get your letterbox and tiles out. I'm going to
model how I use my letter box, our first word is going to be
"went." It will
need four boxes. The
first sound I hear is /w/ so I am going to put in w the first box. Can you see and hear
that? The second
sound I hear is /e/ so what letter do you think we should put
there? (cuff your
ear, Ehh) That's correct!
We put e in the second box. Now I hear the /n/ sound so I will put n
in the third box. And lastly, I hear d, this will go into the
last box. Now I
want everyone to practice doing what I just did. I will tell you how
many letterboxes you will need for each word. I will help you when
needed, (their words will be: ten, neck, pen and spent). I will help as
needed. After they
have spelled the words I will give each student a list with
those same words on them.
I will have them read these words and try to put them
into a sentence.
7. We will read the book, "Pen Pals" and I will introduce
with a book talk. Book talk: Ben is a baby boy that is in his
pen. He starts
yelling for his pet named Ted.
Ben is stuck in his pen and Ted, his pet, cannot get in. They both are very
upset so Ben cries for his dad. Do you want to see if the dad
can get Ted in the pen? I wonder how he is going to do that!
Let's read to find out. The students will read in pair's out
loud. They will be reading for practice because they will be
called up by pairs to read the text to the teacher.
Assessment: I will assess on the students accuracy and
comprehension of the text when they come up and read to me.
Reference:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/encounters/cadrettebr.html
Mallory Cadrette- Encounters
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie Reading genie Site
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/sightings/flemingbr.html-
Mandy Flemming- Sightening
"Pen Pals" Cushman, S (1990)